Dramatic table talk, or Scenes, situations & adventures, serious & comic, in theatrical history & biography [signed R. Ryan].1825 |
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11. oldal
... Manager Dibdin assured me . Of what has occurred since Maturin's ' Bertram , ' I am not aware ; so that I may be traducing , through ignorance , some excellent new writers ; if so , I beg their pardon . I have been absent from England ...
... Manager Dibdin assured me . Of what has occurred since Maturin's ' Bertram , ' I am not aware ; so that I may be traducing , through ignorance , some excellent new writers ; if so , I beg their pardon . I have been absent from England ...
28. oldal
... manager should have permitted one of them to creep into his list , it might be immediately erased . They were not all , however , men of great literary attainments , so that the most ludicrous mistakes were some- times made . One day ...
... manager should have permitted one of them to creep into his list , it might be immediately erased . They were not all , however , men of great literary attainments , so that the most ludicrous mistakes were some- times made . One day ...
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... managers : but , however , should his stomach turn against it as nauseous , he may use , as a succedaneum , a small quantity of opinion , and it will answer the purpose as well . " Item.-Mr. Quick has long laboured to ob- tain the ...
... managers : but , however , should his stomach turn against it as nauseous , he may use , as a succedaneum , a small quantity of opinion , and it will answer the purpose as well . " Item.-Mr. Quick has long laboured to ob- tain the ...
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... managers of former times , as it is among those of the present æra , on the revival of an old play , to get it pieced and patched by some of the journeymen writers of the day . It was thus that Ben Jonson , as appears by the MS . of Mr ...
... managers of former times , as it is among those of the present æra , on the revival of an old play , to get it pieced and patched by some of the journeymen writers of the day . It was thus that Ben Jonson , as appears by the MS . of Mr ...
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... manager , observed , " How's this , Mister Walker ? I thought you had a pretty strong memory . " - " So I have , " replied the actor ; " but you can't expect it to last for ever . " HENDERSON . WHEN Henderson , the celebrated performer ...
... manager , observed , " How's this , Mister Walker ? I thought you had a pretty strong memory . " - " So I have , " replied the actor ; " but you can't expect it to last for ever . " HENDERSON . WHEN Henderson , the celebrated performer ...
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Népszerű szakaszok
123. oldal - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
96. oldal - I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
178. oldal - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
178. oldal - Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent by rule...
181. oldal - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe ; Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, And Truth diffuse...
179. oldal - The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wish'd for Jonson's art, or Shakespeare's flame; Themselves they studied; as they felt, they writ; intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit.
30. oldal - ... public sports do not well agree with public calamities, nor public stage-plays with the seasons of humiliation, this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity, and the other being spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levity...
12. oldal - Because you are a Methodist preacher, and when you know who I am, you'll send me to the devil ! ' " ' The Lord forbid ! I am, as you say, a preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who tells us to clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and relieve the distressed ; and do you think I can behold a sister...
163. oldal - And there was many an hour Of blended kindred fame, When Siddons's auxiliar power And sister magic came. Together at the Muse's side...
168. oldal - Council of the city; and that is called the Mayor's play, where every one that will comes in without money, the Mayor giving the players a reward as he thinks fit to show respect unto them.